Wakefield Quay named after Captain Arthur
Wakefield[captain-arthur-wakefield/] of the New Zealand
Company[new-zealand-company/] was where many early European
Settlers first set foot in New Zealand. It boasts
beautiful views of Nelson's...

Māori started trading with Europeans from the late 18th
Century: with Captain Cook’s crews in the 1770s,
Bellingshausen’s Russian expedition in 1820, D'Urville’s
officers and men in 1827, and whalers and sealers in the
1820s...